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At the Intersection of Man and Machine
International Conference on Mobile Technology and Journalism

#gbj14

It was William Gibson who famously said that the „future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed“. Using this insight as a guideline, we will be discussing present and future developments at the intersection of humans and machines in journalism with German and international journalists

Accommodation offer

Book rooms at special rates at the Park Inn by Radisson Berlin Alexanderplatz. The offer is available until 19 March 2014 using the code „GBJ14“. Single room: EUR 99, double room: EUR 109, both incl. breakfast, excl. City Tax, all conditions of the hotel apply. Phone: +49 30 2389 4333, Fax: +49 30 2389 4305 or email: reservations.berlin@rezidorparkinn.com

The conference will be visually recorded by Julian Kücklich (@playability).

Speakers, Panelists, Hosts

Domenika Ahlrichs

Domenika Ahlrichs, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Zeit Online, has been a dedicated online journalist for 11 years. After having been trained to be a journalist at Evangelische Journalistenschule in Berlin, covering all four types of media: print, tv, radio and online, she decided to focus on the one combining the best of the three others. Germany’s first online-only daily paper Netzeitung was where she started and progressed with her career. When Netzeitung was shut off, she moved on to Zeit Online. Photo: Zeit Online.

Tamara Anthony

Tamara Anthony works as TV correspondent in Berlin for First German Television’s main news “Tagesschau“ and “Tagesthemen“. Prior, she worked as reporter and editor for the investigative TV programme “ARD Panorama”. Tamara Anthony is co-founder of hostwriter.org, which will be launched in May 2014. As a chairperson of the Otto Sprenger Foundation and of journalists-network.org, she works to bring together young journalists from Germany and abroad.

Geraldine de Bastion

Geraldine de Bastion is an international consultant on information and communication technology and new media for development based in Berlin, Germany. She also works with activists and bloggers around the world. She has worked at Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), World Summit of Information Society (WSIS), newthinking communications and curated the re:publica conference. Photo: CC-BY-SA James Gardiner.

Ludovic Blecher

Ludovic Blecher is General Director of The Digital Innovation Press Fund established by Google and AIPG, the French press association. He has been a 2013 fellow at Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. He participated in the creation of GIE E-Press Premium, a digital news-stand. Blecher was executive director and editor in chief of Libération.fr. He is also Associate Professor at the School of Journalism Grenoble (EJDG) and a member of the Conseil national du numérique (CNNum). Photo: Georges Seguin, CC BY-SA.

Georg Dahm

Georg Dahm is the Co-Founder of Substanz, a digital science magazine that raised 35.000 Euro via crowdfunding. Substanz will appear as a weekly paid app that combines longform journalism with interactive layouts. He has been Life Sciences Editor at the German edition of New Scientist, worked at Financial Times Deutschland, and was trained as a journalist with the tabloid Bild. He studied Physical Anthropology and was heading the publication department of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce.

Denis Dilba

Denis Dilba is the Co-Founder of Substanz, a digital science magazine that raised 35.000 Euro via crowdfunding. Substanz will appear as a weekly paid app that combines longform journalism with interactive layouts. Denis studied Mechatronics at TU Hamburg-Harburg and the National University of Singapore. He worked as an engineer at BMW before training at the Deutsche Journalistenschule München. Prior to co-founding Substanz Denis was Hard Sciences Editor at the German edition of New Scientist. Photo: Helen Fischer.

Frederik Fischer

Frederik Fischer, co-founder and managing director of Tame, used to work as a freelance technology and culture correspondent for broadcasters and magazines such as Arte, ZDF, Zeit Online and Wired. While on research at Aarhus University, Amsterdam University and City University London, Frederik analysed the way US news startups influenced the distribution of news content. That inspired his own startup Tame, which he founded together with two colleagues in 2012.

Michael Kreil

Michael Kreil is a developer at OpenDataCity. He has worked on apps for the automotive industry, animations for weather reports, databases for satellite steering and prototypes for interactive TV broadcasts. At OpenDataCity, he has worked on a visualization of phone tracking that was based on German politician Malte Spitz’s movements, collected in accordance to data retention laws. Also, he worked on openPlanB, a public transport open data project based on not-yet-open data.

Julian Raul Kücklich

Julian Kücklich is a recovering academic and graphic facilitator. He is a visual thinker and media researcher with a sustained interest in old and new media, journalism, and visualization. His strengths are analytical and strategic thinking, unorthodox approaches, and constraint-based solutions. He takes pride in his ability to mediate across disciplines and professional cultures, and occasionally blogs at playability.de. Bild: CC-BY-NC Julian Kücklich.

Solana Larsen

Solana Larsen is the managing editor of Global Voices, an award-winning international community of bloggers and translators who report on online citizen media worldwide in more than 30 languages. She is a journalist and a digital activist with an MA in international journalism from City University in London. Formerly she was an editor with the global politics website, openDemocracy.net.

Annette Leßmöllmann

Annette Leßmöllmann is Professor of Science communication and Linguistics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. She has been Professor of Journalism/Science Journalism at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences from 2006-2013. She worked as editor at Gehirn & Geist, as freelance journalist at Die Zeit, Frankfurter Rundschau, and other media outlets. She also took teaching assignments at the Hamburg Northern Institute of Technology and other universities Photo: Jens Steingässer.

Lorenz Matzat

Lorenz Matzat works as a journalist and entrepreneur in Berlin. His main areas of interests are interactive and data journalism. Matzat was co-founder of the award-wining data journalism agency OpenDataCity; he’s currently working at his mapping company Lokaler and is author of the blog datenjournalist.de...

Ramak Molavi

Ramak Molavi works as a lawyer in IT law, social media, mobiles and games. She is general counsel for a gaming company with offices in Berlin and San Fransisco and affiliated with iRights.Law. In her work she deals with complex questions of IT- and competitive law as well implementation of legal requirements in mobile commerce and data protection. Ramak has a particular interest in intellectual property from the creation of original works to IP regulation on a national and international level..

Jonathan Stray

Jonathan Stray is a journalist and a computer scientist. He is a Fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University where he teaches computational journalism. He leads the Overview Project, an open source visualization system to help investigative journalists make sense of very large document sets. He has worked as an editor at the Associated Press, as a freelance reporter in Hong Kong, and as algorithm designer at Adobe Systems.

Marek Tuszyński

Marek Tuszyński is a restless producer of various creative and social interventions that span across various media. He co-founded The Second Hand Bank, International Contemporary Art Network, Tactical Tech and recently Tactical Studios. He is currently focusing on producing interactive and static visualisations representing complex social and political issues. In some spare time he is producing a radio program titled Love & Chaos on Reboot FM.

Team

Hanka Holzapfel

Media relations

Hanka Holzapfel is in charge of media relations, marketing and public relations at iRights.Lab. She studied journalism, communication studies and economics at Freie Universität Berlin. She has been working in public relations and public affairs, business communication and marketing for more than ten years, e.g. for the Einstein Year (2005) and the Year of Information Technology (2006), Fleishman-Hillard International Communications, Bosch and Siemens.

Susanne Janetzki

Event management

Susanne Janetzki is a lawyer and event manager. She has been working for the office of corporate counsel of the German Federal Cultural Foundation, the Thuringian Agency for the Creative Industries and gigmit.com, a website for live music booking. Project coordinator of the conference “Kreativgipfel” (Creative Summit) in Erfurt.

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Jana Maire

Project manager

Project and event coordination and project monitoring at iRights.Lab. Tutor for media education for children and youths. IT specialist by training. Worked on various projects in the IT business as management consultant, project manager and team coordinator. Most recently: conference coordinator for “Shaping Access! – More Responsibility for Cultural Heritage”.

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Philipp Otto

Partner at iRights.Lab

Philipp Otto is a partner at iRightsLab, managing editor at iRights.info and project manager of iRights Cloud. He was a visiting researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and research assistant to Members of Parliament at the German Bundestag. At the Internet and Society Collaboratory, he worked as project manager and head of a working group on copyright and digital goods. In 2012, he was a member of the SPD parliamentary group’s Creative-Pact Expert Group, a member of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research’s Expert Committee on innovation-friendly copyright in the 21st century and a delegation member of the Chinese-German Rule of Law Dialogue.

David Pachali

Conception, documentation

David Pachali works as journalist on net politics, copyright and digital publics. He is editor at iRights.info. As a freelance journalist, he published at taz, ZDF Hyperland, Jüdische Allgemeine, Meedia, and golem.de, among others. David edited books and publications such as „Überwachte Gesellschaft“ (iRights.Media, 2013), “Öffentlichkeit im Wandel“ (Heinrich Böll Foundation, 2012).

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Julia Schrader

Management assistant

Julia is in charge of management assistance and office management at iRights.Lab, project assistance, conference coordination, and organization for iRights projects. Media designer for digital and print media. She studied American studies and political science at Freie Universität Berlin.

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Matthias Spielkamp

Partner at iRights.Lab

Matthias Spielkamp is a founding partner of the iRights.Lab think tank. He advises public institutions, NGOs and private companies on online journalism, communication strategies and information security and is project lead and curator of the Groundbreaking Journalism series. Matthias serves as managing editor at iRights.info and held teaching assignments at different universities. He co-authored three books on journalism and copyright, serves on the board of the German chapter of Reporters without Borders (pro bono) and is a member of the American Council on Germany as a former McCloy Fellow.

Dr. David Deißner

Head of Strategy and Programs, Vodafone Institute for Society and Communications

David Deißner is Head of Strategy and Programs of the Vodafone Institute. He is responsible for the strategic development of the institute’s programs as well as heading up research and policy work in our various areas of work. He is particularly interested in digital learning and M-government. Before he joined the Vodafone Institute he was Head of the Vodafone Foundation’s Think Tank in Germany. David studied philosophy, political science and literature and holds a PhD from Oxford University. After his graduation he worked as a political editor for German newspapers as DIE WELT.

Jost Neumann

Intern for Strategy and Programs, Vodafone Institute for Society and Communications

Jost Neumann is studying Future Studies (M.A.) at Free University of Berlin. His fields of interest are potentials of digital transformation, government foresight and open source intelligence. Jost was student assistant to the Institute for Philosophy, Literature and History of Science and Technology at the Technical University Berlin. At the same time, he was employed at the Steinbeis-Hochschule Berlin. Recently, he did an internship at the Vodafone Institute for Society and Communications.

Christian Rapp

Head of Communications at the Vodafone Institute for Society and Communications

Christian Rapp is Head of Communications at the Vodafone Institute for Society and Communications. Beyond that he is responsible for our projects on socio-political participation. He is particularly interested in the effects of digital media on political participation and the organisation of civil society. Prior to his work at the Institute, he was Head of Communications at The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. Further to his work at the Institute, Christian is Chief Social Media Officer at Vodafone Germany. He studied political science and communications in Leipzig.

Dr. Mark Speich

Mark Speich has been CEO of Vodafone Stiftung Deutschland gGmbH (Vodafone Foundation Germany) since May 2008. He also serves as an Executive Director of the Vodafone Institute for Society and Communications since August 2011. Prior to this, he was Director of the Policy Planning Staff of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Party in the German Bundestag. He started his career in the CDU Secretary General’s Policy Advisory Staff in the Konrad-Adenauer-Haus in Bonn. He was educated at Collegium Josephinum Bonn, studied history, political science and constitutional law at the universities of Cambridge (MPhil) and Bonn (Ph.D.). Mark Speich is married with five children.